prairie schooner
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The most common wagon was the prairie schooner.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
There it will begin tests that will culminate in flights that could do for space colonization what the prairie schooner and the railroads did for the settling of America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Good shot: Mary, her hair disarrayed by the wind, snuggling up to John for a kiss, in the front seat of a prairie schooner.
From Time Magazine Archive
With fresh paint, new lumber and much of America out on the open road in the modern prairie schooner, the motor home, Tombstone was back in business, a going concern.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prairie schooner, too, bore many of the characteristics of these early farm wagons.
From Conestoga Wagons in Braddock's Campaign, 1755 by Donald H. Berkebile
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